RE: [xsl] RE: Saxon via Ant - Getting started

["Kerry, Richard" <richard.kerry@xxxxxxxx>]

I'll give it a try next time I'm working on docbook, which is unlikely to be
for a few days.

Yes, I thought it was a bit odd that some DB stylesheets specifically need an
old Saxon to work.  Perhaps the current work on 1.78.1 stylesheets could look
at this.
(There is a comment at the top which says "Only Saxon 6.4.2 or later is
supported" - if this issue is not fixed the comment should be amended to make
it clearer that only Saxon 6.4.2 to 6.5.5 are supported, and not later !)

What would a straight change to result-document need doing with regard to the
use of the test for element-available('saxon:output') ?  (presumably anything
doing that could just be deleted)
And the saxon:character-representation parameter of saxon:output - how would
that need changing, as it doesn't appear to map to a result-document
parameter/attribute (as do all the other params) ?


Appreciatively,
Richard.

PS.  I'm reluctant to cross-post but this does now seem to be a
docbook-specific issue....




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 04 February 2013 11:01
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] RE: Saxon via Ant - Getting started
>
>
>
> It seems that the docbook1 stylesheets rely on the XSLT processor
> supporting one of saxon:output, exsl:document, or (xalan)
> redirect:write.
>
> Seems a shame that this should still be the case in 2013 - I
> don't know
> if the XSLT 2.0 version of docbook has advanced. Meanwhile it
> would be
> very easy to write an overlay for the templates in
> chunker.xsl that work
> with xsl:result-document if available. You can probably just take the
> module as written and replace "saxon:output" by "xsl:result-document".
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
> On 04/02/2013 10:11, Kerry, Richard wrote:
> > Don't know how to chunk with Saxonica